Peter Obi vindicated by President Buhari ,says Obi was impeached for refusing to inflate Anambra budget

www.odogwublog.com reports that eleven
years after his impeachment, the Presidency has confirmed that former
Governor of Anambra State, Mr. Peter Obi, did not commit any crime
deserving removal from office but that his offense was his refusal to
inflate the budget of the state.

Commenting
on the incident, Senior Special Assistant to President Muhamadu Buhari
on Media and Publicity Garba Shehu, in an article released on Sunday to
commemorate the third anniversary of the Buhari Presidency, listed Obi
as one of those who suffered injustice while in office as Governor.

Corroborating
the report, Chief Stephen Okeke, a community leader in Anambra State,
said the statement was true. He went on to name other reasons for Obi’s
impeachment thus: “It was not just the request to inflate the budget and
accommodate their interests, they also gave as reason, the use of
N43.2million by Mr. Peter Obi to repair the burnt Governor’s House for
which 298 million was already appropriated in the budget; the use of N81
million for the reconstruction of the burnt Governor’s Lodge for which
N486 million was also appropriated. First, they were speaking in
tongues on the need to follow the budget. When Obi pretended he did not
have the gift of interpretation of tongues, they told him pointblank
that the appropriated money was for sensitive interests.”

Still
on the reasons given by the lawmakers to impeach Obi, Okeke said: “Some
of the reasons sound incredible. Would you believe that the number
three item on the notice of impeachment was that he was saving money for
the state without approval for which he ended up saving over N75
billion before he handed over? They also accused him of degrading the
office of the Governor for using Peugeot 406 as his official vehicle in
his first tenure. They also said, for reasons difficult to fathom, that
he was buying furniture locally.”

Okeke
said people like him that did not understand the politics behind their
stand were utterly confounded until later investigations showed that
those items were already shared among House members as their own
dividends of democracy.

He
regretted that those very close to Obi in real life and in government
were part of the impeachment because they felt it would benefit them. He
thanked retired Chief Justice of the Federation, Justice Alfa Belgore,
for standing firm and refusing the imprimatur of the judiciary.

Mr.
Obi, whose impeachment took place on November 2, 2006, had pursued his
case in court and won, successfully completing his first term as
governor on February 9, 2010. He thereafter won re-election for a second
four-year tenure, which he also completed successfully.

Peter Obi vindicated by President Buhari ,says Obi was impeached for refusing to inflate Anambra budget
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